{"id":4770,"date":"2014-11-12T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/amazon-holds-225-of-uk-entertainment-market\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T06:22:24","slug":"amazon-holds-225-of-uk-entertainment-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/amazon-holds-225-of-uk-entertainment-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon holds 22.5% of UK entertainment market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/62\/Amazon.com-Logo.svg\/972px-Amazon.com-Logo.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"323\" height=\"65\" \/><br \/>Amazon&#8217;s physical entertainment sales in the UK increased by nearly  5% in Q3, giving it a 22.5% share of the entertainment market. Latest data from Kantar Worldpanel shows that its lead has widened  over its closest rival, Tesco, whose sales were down by 5.5% in the  three months to the end of September. This left the supermarket giant  with a 15% market share.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>HMV maintained its position with 12.3% of the entertainment market,  although it is still hoping to overtake Amazon as the UK&#8217;s main film and  music retailer.<\/p>\n<p><span>Fiona Keenan, strategic insight director, attributed Amazon\u2019s  success to a shift towards buying online: \u201cThanks to the rise of  connected devices \u2013 71% of individuals now own a smartphone and 57% own a  tablet \u2013 this is a shift that we expect to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Amazon\u2019s range of Fire tablets has given it another platform  to promote its offering directly to consumers, and it appears to be  working, as 15% of entertainment products sold on its site are purchased  on a tablet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Source: Music Week<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s physical entertainment sales in the UK increased by nearly 5% in Q3, giving it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}